I recently had to replace the monitor on my desktop machine (running CentOS 5.11 w/Xen), but I am having trouble getting a *sane* display resolution.
First of all this is an 'older' machine (about 5 years old), with a ASRock K10N78 motherboard with integrated video: VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2). I have the stock CentOS 5 Xorg installed: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.107.el5.centos xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.3.0-8.3.el5 XOrg is using the vesa driver, since the NVIDIA GeForce 8200 is not supported by the nv driver (xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.15-4.el5). This has been *normally* fine by me -- my old monitor was a 17" 4:3 monitor that worked just fine at 1024x768 resolution. *I* have no need for 3d acceleration. The NVIDIA semi-closed driver is not supported under Xen, so hassling with that is not an option (and if that was the *only* solution, I'll just have to return the monitor to BestBuy and get something else, probably a more expensive 4:3 monitor from Amazon). The new monitor is a NOC model 1970 and it is a 19.5" 16:9 LED monitor. It only has a VGA connection -- DVI or HDMI are not options. I have tried to set suitable mode lines in my xorg.conf file, but Xorg seems to be ignoring them. Why is this? What 'magic' do I need to perform to get Xorg to behave? Right now it is coming up in 1024x768 (which is a 4:3 resolution). I want *square* pixels, so I want a 16:9 display resolution. How do I make that happen? The Xorg log file and my xorg.conf file are available here: http://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/X11MonitorProbs.zip -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
